Backyard Lander

Flying & Aeronautics
Building a half size model of the Apollo lunar Lander to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing

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Barry Nobles

When I was in third grade my teacher gave me a sticker of the lunar lander. Her father worked on it at Grummman. Now 50 years later I am very excited to build half size one for my backyard. I know it's a bucket list thing, but I think it's going to be a lot of fun and I'm meeting a lot of interesting people. My tagline is Think it, Make i

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What inspired you to make this project?
In 1969 by third-grade teacher gave me a sticker from the project her father was working on. It was the it was the lunar lander being built for the Apollo program. Now I am building A half size model ,one that I have called the backyard Lander to celebrate the 400,000 men and women that worked to for fill President Kennedy's dream to send a man to the moon and return of safely to earth